Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: "A word one should avoid using" -- Initiations -- "No experiment, a reliving" -- The great work -- The revisionist visionary -- Lustra -- 1."Blasted into consciousness": Majic Ring, Trilogy, Amen, and the Air Marshall -- Against the grain -- The nameless initiates -- The large star -- One or two Zs -- 2.Dans l'ombre Des Cathedrales and Hermetic Definition: Other Bodies, Other Initiations -- Initiation: The astral plane -- Stars of day -- The Sun -- The other presence: "Grove of Academe" and "Aegina" -- 3."Don't let me forget this, when I wake up": The Luciferian Doctrine -- Preamble: Irreconcilable worlds and monstrous birth in twentieth-century literature -- The Luciferian Doctrine -- Baphomet and Lucifer -- Vale Ave: Doubles, semblables, angels, demons, error, and love -- The esoteric doctrine of love -- 4.Theurgy, Helens, and the Nameless-of-Many-Names -- The last page of "Sagesse" -- Birth of the Ruach Elohim -- Egregors -- Practical magic, self-analysis -- Black Helen, dark Achilles -- 5.Synthesis, Conclusions, Applications.
Summary:
"Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms,' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain war hero Hugh Dowding-along the way"-- Provided by publisher.
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